The Infamous Moosh/Whoorl Hair Challenge

**Because Blogger's being difficult and not helping anyone other than itself, I've updated to add what is in the speech bubbles under the pictures.

Once upon a time, there was a princess named Casey of the Beautiful Hair Everyday. She lived in the great state of Indiana with her handsome Prince Law Guy and her gorgeous daughter Princess Moosh. One day, her fairy caulk-gather gave her a gift of $1000 and Princess Casey of the Beautiful (okay this is getting really long, so we're just going to call her Princess Casey OTBHE) being the kind and generous princess she was, decided to share her goodies with one deserving soul. To open it to everyone in the land, she created a contest, working with her good friend the good witch Sarah from Whoorl Land, so that everyone who needed help could be heard and judged fairly.

Meanwhile, far away in the hot and humid land of New Jersey, there lived a poor peasant girl named MB, who was afflicted with the disease Rum-Tum-Tugger-itis, and she could never make up her mind about her hair. When it was long, she wished it was short. When it was short, she wished it was long. Short or long, it was almost always fly-away type of hair. And instead of a fairy-caulk father, MB had been cursed at birth by the evil magician Father Time. He came to her cradle and declared that her hair would turn grey over time and that it would get coarser and crinkly (wot the hell???) as she grew older.

MB had very, very, very fine (new-born baby fine) hair that was a mousey-brown with reddish highlights when the sun hit it just right, and her grandmother and mother had the same kind of hair. Their's just got lighter and lighter naturally, until it was a silvery brown. In her idealistic youth, she sneered at the curse Father Time laid on her, and decide that she wouldn't care about the color of her hair. She would follow in the footsteps of her fore-mothers and just grow old gracefully.

Her mother would tell her, "You know, I really like it when you pull your hair back in two barretes so it's soft around your face" and, because she loved her mother very much and because she had no money, MB grew her hair out. But she usually wore it in a ponytail. And when her mother said, "You know, I really love it when your hair is shorter and just curls around your face" she screamed in frustration, and since she still didn't have any money, she began to have evil thoughts of cutting it herself. And she would sit and wish she had 7 determined little men working day and night on her hair like stupid Snow White or even mice and birds like Cinderella.

Then one morning, to her chagrin, MB noticed that some of her hair was actually turning grey. Her first reaction was to pull them out immediately. Her second reaction was horror because SHE WAS DRIVING AT THE TIME and she nearly went off the road, taking out several other peasants with her! She managed to wait until she got home, and then ran for the tweezers. It was only 3 6 hairs after all. In that spot, that is. When she looked more carefully, there were a few more.

MB had 3 options available to her. 1) Stick with the idealism, continue to hide her head in the sand, and let nature carry out its course (the part of her that doesn't feel fortymumble is screaming at this - no words, just screaming); 2) pluck out every grey hair she finds (which means she may wind up with no hair); or 3) go to Rick the magician hairdresser and tell him to put in the highlights he keeps telling her about.

And then the proclamation rang through the land, that one person would be chosen to have her hair transformed by the joint effort of the Princess Casey OTBHE and the good witch Sarah of Whoorl Land. All MB had to do was post some pictures of good, bad, and current hair days. Be forewarned, this is not going to be pretty.

The good ....

The good (short and in college) ... I'm the one in blue.

Short - when I was teaching.....

Current hair - bad hair day - bad everything day ...
Speech bubble - Father Time you SUCK! And it would appear you've taken my neck!

The way it usually is worn - in a ponytail ....

Speech bubble - Oops! Grey hair I missed.

My favorite ...

The next step ...

Speech bubble - If something doesn't happen soon, I'm taking it all off, I swear!